Gorkij Quotes & Sayings

Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life. — Ann Brashares

The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother. — Joe Bob Briggs

There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception. — James Thurber

The diagram of the house is a portrait of the family, a true portrait, whether it's sad or happy. — Jimenez Lai

When afterwards he mentioned the names of the Tartars he had got to know on his pilgrimage, like Hallimulabalibay, to which he added a whole string of names he had himself invented, like Valivolavalivey, Malimulamalimey, Lieutenant Lukas could not stop himself from sying: 'I'll kick your backside, you mule. Go on, and be brief and to the point! — Jaroslav Hasek

If you can't keep quiet, shut up! — Gregory Ratoff

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence. — Samuel Rutherford

There's truth in wine, and there may be some in gin and muddy beer; but whether it's truth worth my knowing, is another question. — George Eliot

The bread that you see on the altar is the Body of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word. The chalice, or better what is contained in the chalice, is the Blood of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word — Saint Augustine

If you've never been cussed out by a Siamese, you don't know what profanity is all about! — Lilian Jackson Braun

Lombardi, Shula, Landry and Gibbs were innovators. Bill Walsh was a visionary ... — Michael Wilbon

The complicated, ambiguous milieu of human contact is being replaced with simple, scalable equations. We maintain thousands more friends than any human being in history, but at the cost of complexity and depth. Every minute spent online is a minute of face-to-face time lost. — Daniel H. Wilson

III Buffalo Bill's defunct who used to ride a watersmooth-silver stallion and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat Jesus he was a handsome man and what i want to know is how do you like your blueeyed boy Mister Death — E. E. Cummings

I try not to take things too personally, because most of the time, people aren't even thinking about anyone else but themselves. — Xosha Roquemore